5.3 Information sources pertaining to the rest of Central Europe
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This article is from the Hungarian FAQ, by Zoli Fekete fekete@bc.edu with numerous contributions by others.
5.3 Information sources pertaining to the rest of Central Europe
This section is by no means to be comprehensive. For a big but dated
(1992) list see
<gopher://poniecki.berkeley.edu/00/archives/polish.archives/Network/EE-MotherList>.
Both OMRI and CET cover the general region in their news. See Section
1.1 and 1.2, respectively.
To complement the HUNGARY list (see Section 1.7), at the same listserv
at Buffalo there exist the Middle European discussion list MIDEUR-L as
well as POLAND-L and SLOVAK-L. Send the usual command to
<mailto:LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU> (or simply LISTSERV@UBVM on
BITNET):
SUBSCRIBE listname-L Yourfirstname Yourlastname.
On Usenet there is soc.culture.romanian, soc.culture.czecho-slovak,
soc.culture.polish, and the gatewayed bit.listserv.mideur-l and
bit.listserv.slovak-l; bit.listserv.hungary has been established, but
many sites do not have it. The surest way to receive everything is via
email. If you prefer using Usenet newsreaders you find HIX's HUNGARY
digests posted to soc.culture.magyar (which group does not seem to
suffer the poor propagation affecting some of the bit.listserv
groups). Please notice that while the listserv groups are
bi-directionally gatewayed, i.e. posts to them get propagated back to
the original mailing list, the posts coming from HIX to
soc.culture.magyar are mere copies of the mailing list messages - do
not reply to the newgroups since your answer won't reach the email
readers (who constitute a likely large majority).
Speaking of limitations of distribution be aware that some commercial
Internet connection providers (most blatantly American Online)
established their own groups with topics overlapping existing Usenet
hierarchy. The utility of these local groups is seriously limited since
they are, unlike the open real Usenet newsgroups such as those
mentioned above, unavailable to anyone but their own subscribers (i.e.
a small domestic fraction of all the Internet/Usenet users worldwide).
Please do not post to non-local groups saying how nice would be to use
these specialized forums - we can not. Use the newsgroup
soc.culture.magyar or the mailing lists!
The Central European Regional Research Organization (CERRO) can be
joined at <mailto:LISTSERV@AEARN.ACO.NET> with the command
SUBSCRIBE CERRO-L Firstname Lastname. This is a scholarly group that
deposits papers and the like in an electronic archive in Vienna. The
archive is accessible with anonymous <ftp://wu-wien.ac.at>, or with
<gopher://gopher.wu-wien.ac.at>.
The Eastern Europe Business Network (e-europe@pucc.princeton.edu) is
primarily remarkable for its size (1700+ subscribers). Messages tend to
be brief bursts of announcements, questions and, unsurprisingly, calls
for or queries about business. The list is administered by Yale's Civic
Education Project (Chris Owen, <mailto:cep@minerva.cis.yale.edu>). To
subscribe, send a message to the address
<mailto:listserv@pucc.princeton.edu> that has
subscribe e-europe YourFirstName YourLastName
in its body.
The repository for Voice of America material, accessible with
<gopher://gopher.voa.gov>, also contains some information and news
items relevant to the region.
Check the NATO archive for goodies: <gopher://gopher.nato.int>.
The Slovakia Document Store will answer all your questions about
Slovakia: on the World Wide Web, <http://www.eunet.sk>, via
<gopher://gopher.eunet.sk>, via <ftp://ftp.eunet.sk/slovakia/>, via
gophermail: send a message with Subject: HELP
<mailto:gophermail@slovakia.eu.net>.
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